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Neither journalists, nor investors understand that gold doesn’t go up at all. Since gold represents constant purchasing power, it is not gold that goes up but the value of paper money that goes down.

Gold, for its part, has an unrivalled track record in this category, it is simply number one. This is the best way to "flee" from money without going to an asset in a bubble situation, and thus risking collapse. It remains by far the best way to preserve the purchasing power of capital in the lon...

Zombie companies are those with infinitely more debt than available cash, yet due to their size, enjoy unfair access to low-rate debt/capital and stay “alive” only by borrowing today to pay yesterday’s interest, and then borrowing tomorrow to pay today’s debt interest.

In the current paradigm shift, gold will rise not because gold only rises in inflationary periods (after all, gold recently hit new highs in an openly deflationary global setting). Instead, gold will rise simply because currency purchasing power will tank (and is already tanking) as inflationism...

CBDCs are part of a plan to eliminate cash: make it useless and then ban it. And when all our money exists in digital form, we will no longer be able to escape a negative rate of -0.5%, -1%, etc. (who knows where it will end), which will erode our savings.

What ordinary investors don’t realise is that they will in the next few years be ambushed by what to them is an invisible enemy. This will initially involve total debasement of the currency, whether it is dollars, euros, pounds or yen. No they can’t all go down together against each other. But th...

For decades, the majority of risk asset investors have either ignored or ridiculed buyers of gold and silver. But here’s the rub: For decades (in fact, for centuries) being in the myopic majority has been a mistake, and this is no less true today when it comes to the topic of precious metals.

Egon von Greyerz and Matthew Piepenburg discuss their respective experiences and insights regarding wealth preservation themes in general and gold in particular. There is an undeniable storm ahead (inflation risk, currency risk, market risk, banking risk etc.) and investors need to build their pr...

Since November 2020, the central bank of Uzbekistan (CBU) issues sealed gold bars with a QR-code for real time verification. With these new bars CBU aims to stimulate gold to be used as a store of value, as well as promote the circulation of gold.

Your best friend and protector in this ignominious company of bubble assets and falling currencies are precious metals in the form of physical gold and silver. But please ignore PAPER gold and silver (including ETFs) which one day will be worthless. On the opposite side of the collapsing dollar s...